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Moss Side Riots 25 years on

IN a room at the West Indian Sports and Social Club in Moss Side, rookie police officers and a group of young black men from the neighbourhood are acting act out a scene which has been a source of...

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History… Whose story?

One does not to drill down too deeply to find the connection between the racist and most brutal murder of Anthony Walker in 2005 and the central thrust of Benjamin Zephaniah (pictured) ’s lecture in...

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What did the Iron Lady do for us?

On April 15th, Vox Africa kindly invited me to take part in their flagship programme “Shoot the Messenger“, where we discussed Baroness Thatcher’s legacy. I was joined in studio by former Mayor of...

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To iconize and canonize: Stephen Lawrence 20 years later

From: The Guardian’s website (http://bit.ly/11KVIgp) On 22 April 2013, senior representatives of the British state joined the Lawrence family in marking the 20th anniversary of the murder of 18 year...

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‘Go Home or Face Arrest’: promoting ‘community cohesion’ in ‘post racial’...

The year is 1990. The place, Hackney in East London. A man is walking along Homerton High Street accompanied by his children whom he is taking to join the public library. A builder’s truck passes by...

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Educating the British: Gove, choice and free schools

“Deputy PM and Education Secretary visit Durand Academy” by Cabinet Office (Flickr – CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Much has been made about the spat between deputy prime minister Nick Clegg and education secretary...

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Barbados thanks God for Margaret Thatcher

Two church events took place in Barbados on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th November respectively, each in thanksgiving and celebration of a life and in each case, a life lived in Britain. On Saturday 16...

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Mandela: Goodness Personified, Terrorism Purified!

“South Africans mourn the death of the late former President Nelson Mandela” by GCIS/GovernmentZA (Flick – CC BY-ND 2.0) There appears to be an unwritten code of conduct in most societies I know that...

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